Elegiac poem, on the death of Dr. Benjamin Rush : professor of the institutes and practice of medicine and of clinical practice in the University of Pennsylvania ; who fell a victim to the prevailing typhus fever, on the 19th of April, 1813.

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Elegiac poem, on the death of Dr. Benjamin Rush : professor of the institutes and practice of medicine and of clinical practice in the University of Pennsylvania ; who fell a victim to the prevailing typhus fever, on the 19th of April, 1813. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Philadelphia : Published by Anthony Finley, southeast corner of Chesnut and Fourth streets ; William Fry, printer, 1813.

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32 pages ; 22 cm

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Includes bibliographical references

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Shaw & Shoemaker 28411
Austin, R.B. Early Amer. medical imprints, 716

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Microfilm. [Bethesda, Md.] : National Library of Medicine, 1958. 1 microfilm reel : negative ; 35 mm

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John Syng Dorsey (1783-1818) has been suggested as the author. On p. 19 the author notes that he was "about eight years old" during the yellow fever epidemic at Philadelphia in 1793
Dedicated to the students of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
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Film 633 reel 40 is part of Research Publications Early American Medical Imprints collection (RP reel 40, no. 716).

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